Roundtable
Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
June 25, 2025
August 18, 2017
The Rest Is History
Seven sisters sell hair tonic, New Yorkers protest Nazism, and Chinese laborers do the work of World War I.
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August 16, 2017
Into the Dusky, Rusky Forest
The extraordinary life and forgotten work of Dixie Willson.
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August 11, 2017
The Rest Is History
The Summer of Love, the smelly summer of 1858, and the summer(s) of the lunar eclipse.
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August 09, 2017
By Violence Dispossessed
Frances Coke’s marriage to John Villiers was a disaster—as was the war between her parents that preceded it.
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August 04, 2017
The Rest Is History
An eighteenth-century power couple, Italian tomb raiders, and a very long walk in 1569.
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July 28, 2017
The Rest Is History
Lady engineers, citrus fruits as status symbols, and using oboe as a verb.
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July 26, 2017
A Song of Ice and Fire
World Ice Theory and the supernatural imaginary of the Third Reich.
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Monumental Mistakes
2023:
Fitness instructor carves his girlfriend’s name into the Colosseum.
c. 1850:
Thompson of Sunderland makes his mark on Pompey’s pillar.
Revolutionary Lovebirds
2023:
Writers on strike search for romance at the picket line.
c. 1945:
Young communists engage in party matchmaking.